Losing respect for Rand Paul

[The Grand Nudger]

When the rest of the world lols at our "left" and reminds us that they're conservatives, or right leaning centrists -at best- ......everywhere else...something is awry.

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For the consumer..yes, but not the producer.  There are better margins and a larger market for less efficient windows  That's the problem in a nutshell.

-and yet...even limiting oneself to just the sustainable alternatives..the cheaper and comparatively less sustainable products are more profitable.

Wrong and wrong. Usually it's a matter of improved technology.

If you say so, meanwhile, cheaper tech is winning over "better tech" in every category.  The world is chock full of poor people, Shadow.

Like I said, it's a new way of thinking about things.

Yeah..and are -you- planning on coming out of pocket, personally..to educate each and every one of them to think the new way?  Roll that into the cost of your product, and gl with that. I have profound difficulty in educating my consumers so that they are willing to pay the --same- price for a better product. I expect that it will be easier for you..when you get around to it...but I hope you at least realize how much money someone else spent to make that situation a reality...when the day comes.

Another example: using more efficient light bulbs - they aren't more expensive, just different. 

I can get an old bulb for pennies.  30 bucks for the good shit. Sure...I know I save money on my buill, you know that..but that doesn't matter to a person with pennies, instead of 30 bucks. This, is the market reality. It's entirely divorced from any shared ideology or even any long term fact shared between us....and it;s -that- reality that you will have to navigate, if you want to implement sustainability practically. Barring some regulation that impacts the old bulbs...they'll always be with us..and people will just get better and better at producing them. New Tech™ isn't a one way street that only benefits you and I.